Electronic graduate theses and dissertations from Utah State University.
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2022
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Task Analysis Data Sheet Protocol in Training Educators to Use the You/Me Game During Direct Instruction Reading Groups, McKenzie Niebergall
A Comparison of the Effects of Varied Verbal Prompts Paired with Visual Prompts on Echoic Verbal Behavior with Minimally Verbal Students, Chelsea Nielsen
A Pad Design of a One Megawatt Inductive Power Transfer System for Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Charging, Reebal Majed Nimri
Urban Soil Chemical and Nutrient Management Issues Facing Emerging Small Grower Enterprises in Utah, Frank E. Oliver
Fabrication and Testing of Catalyst-Infused Filament for 3D Printing of Ignition-Augmented Hybrid Rocket Fuels, Kurt C. Olsen
Empirical Evaluation of Route-Based Landscape Experiences, Garet Openshaw
What Keeps Technology and Engineering Teachers in the Classroom? A National Mixed Methods Study, Cory J. Ortiz
A Mixed-Methods Study of College Experiences and Learning and Study Strategies of High-Achieving Engineering Students, Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi
Aging Bison Teeth With a GIS: A New Tooth Age Prediction Methodology and its Archaeological and Ecological Implications, Andrew Edward Owens
Vietnam Continued: The Battle for American Public Memory in Public School History Textbooks, Donnie Owens
Using Experiments, 3D Scanning, and Computational Fluid Dynamics to Analyze Variance in Minor Loss Coefficients, Adam B. Pack
Impact of pH and Palmitic Acid on Ruminal Fermentation and Microbial Community Composition, Lexie Padilla
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production Through Crops, Grazing, and Forestry in the U.S. From 1997 to 2012, Suman Paudel
Assessing and Improving Effort-Based Decision-Making, Sara Peck
Monthly Variation of Thermospheric Neutral Winds, Layne G. Pedersen
Thermodynamic Analysis of a Novel Cycle for Nuclear SMR and Heat Transfer Performance Validation of the Related Supercritical Working Fluids, Benjamin M. Pepper
Investigating the Use of Quartz Luminescence and Rock-Color Alteration to Characterize Wildfire Exposure; Applied to the 2020 Mangum Fire, Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, April I. Phinney
Insights into Phosphoryl Transfer by the Thermophilic Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, SsoPTP, Justin Pinkston
Analysis of Substrate Specificity and Dimer Disruption in Protein Arginine Methyltransferases, Owen M. Price
Network-Wide Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis with Statistical and Machine Learning Models in Utah, Md Rafiur Rahman
Long Term Feasibility of Inductive Power Transfer Systems Embedded in Concrete Pavement Panels, Nathan J. Raine
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Predict Flow Through the West Crack Breach of the Great Salt Lake Railroad Causeway, Michael Rasmussen
Evaluating Strategies for Anemone and Ranunculus Cut Flower Production in the US Intermountain West, Shannon Rauter
Skeletal Muscle Growth of Beef Cattle: Cattle Breed Types and Anabolic Implants, Caleb C. Reichhardt
Extreme, Positive Geomorphic Change in a Historically Degraded Desert River: Implications for Imperiled Fishes, Tansy T. Remiszewski
Geometry- and Accuracy-Preserving Random Forest Proximities with Applications, Jake S. Rhodes
Maternal Education and Changes in Parenting Beliefs, Values, and Practices, Becca E. Richards
Stewards and Conservationists: Merging Moral Norms and the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Altruistic Conservation Behavior Among Hunters in Southwestern Utah, Jacob C. Richards
Automated Quality Control for In-Situ Water Temperature Sensors, Leah S. Richardson
Bugs Buy Steady Releases from Hydropower Producers to Encourage More Synergistic Reservoir Management, Moazzam Ali Rind
Developing Cultural Competence Among Sixth-Grade Students Through Indigenous Knowledge and Place-Based Education, Tyus Roanhorse
Using the Reshetikhin-Turaev Link Invariant Approach with Non-Semisimple Categories, Adam Robertson
Conservation Genetics of a Declining Bumble Bee in Western North America; The Influence of Geography, Dispersal Limitation, and Anthopogenic Activity, Ashley T. Rohde
Evaluation of Human and Ecological Water Management Tradeoffs in a Seasonal Watershed with Spatially-Distributed Demands, Jesse Lee Rowles
Improved Digital Image Correlation Techniques at High Speed and High Temperature, Lindsey J. Rowley
Let Us Live to Make Men Free: Locke and Aquinas on Toleration and Natural Law, Micah Safsten
Pressure from PIV for an Oscillating Internal Flow, Md Nazmus Sakib
The Role of Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep (DBAS), Rumination, Psychological Inflexibility, and Insomnia Among College Students, Guadalupe G. San Miguel
Characterizing the Migratory Phenology and Routes of the Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in Northern Utah, Kim Savides
Multi-Fidelity Predictions for Control Allocation on the NASA Ikhana Research Aircraft to Minimize Drag, Justice T. Schoenfeld
Correlation Between Loop Motions and Catalysis in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Ruidan Shen
Late Pleistocene Piedmont Records in the Grand Staircase Region, Southern Utah, Alexander K. Short
Programming Process, Patterns and Behaviors: Insights from Keystroke Analysis of CS1 Students, Raj Shrestha
Pleistocene Deposits of Lower Wahweap Creek and Its Tributaries, Southern Utah, Noah Slade
Representation of Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools Compared to Traditional Public Schools, Brenda K. Smith
Evaluation of the Geothermal Potential of the Camas Prairie, South-Central Idaho, Connor J. Smith
Shame-Proneness and Sexual Satisfaction Among Conservatively Religious Sexual Minorities, Sydney A. Sorrell
Cultivating Agrobiodiversity in the U.S.: Barriers and Bridges at Multiple Scales, Kaitlyn A. Spangler
CuO Nanoparticles Solubility as Influenced by Soil Pore Water, Native Microorganisms, and Wheat Rhizosphere Chemistry in a Sand Matrix, Dakota Sparks
Dimensions of Visitor Movement in Parks and Protected Areas: A Holistic Look at Alternative Transportation Systems and an Exploration of Informal Trail Networks, Bettina Spernbauer
Optimal Relative Path Planning for Constrained Stochastic Space Systems, Nathan Bohus Stastny
Increasing Independence in Students with Disabilities Through the Use of Visual Activity Schedules Within the General Education Classroom, Natalie Stevens
Comparing Fecal DNA Capture-Recapture Methods to Traditional Mark-Resight Methods for Estimating Abundance of Mule Deer on Winter Ranges, Andi M. Stewart
High School Biology Teachers' Integration of Argumention in the Context of Disciplinary Literacy Coaching, Ashley Strong
Impacts of the Changing Pacific on North American Drought, Atmospheric Rivers, and Explosive Cyclones, Jacob Stuivenvolt-Allen
4R Nitrogen and Water Optimization Combinations for Intermountain West Field Crops, Tina Sullivan
Implicit Cost of Retaliatory Tariffs by Mexico on U.S. Cheese Export, Pengyan Sun
Quantifying Floral Resource Availability Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Machine Learning Classifications to Predict Bee Community Structure, Jesse Anjin Tabor
A Moderated Mediation Model of Gender, Posttraumatic Cognitions, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms After Military Sexual Assault, Hallie S. Tannahill
Seed Ecology and Regeneration Processes to Inform Seed-Based Wetland Restoration, Emily E. Tarsa
Multidisciplinary Reference Solutions for Performance-Optimized Aircraft Wings with Tailored Aerodynamic Load Distributions, Jeffrey D. Taylor
Serendipity Shape Function for Hybrid Fluid/Kinetic-PIC Simulations, Trevor V. Taylor
AC-AC Converter Topologies for Wireless Charging Applications, Chakridhar Reddy Teeneti
Teacher Home Visits: Changes in Perceptions of Key Stakeholders, Kevin R. Thomas
Characterizing Karst Mountain Watersheds Through Streamflow Response to Snowmelt, Daniel Meade Thurber
A Study of Leadership Behaviors in Esports Contexts, Joseph C. Tucker
Graviweak Theory in Bicomformal Space, Mubarak Ukashat
Executive Orders on a Political Timeline: Examination of Executive Orders in the Supreme Court and Stephen Skowronek's Theory of Presidential Leadership, Alisha Rachele Urrutia
Effects of Obesity on Knee Extensor Structure, Function, and Gait: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Michael N. Vakula
Low Resource Assay for Tracking SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater, Julissa van Renselaar
Initial Development and Validation of a New Measure of Students' Social-Emotial Competencies, Stephanie A. Vinal
Immunological Tradeoffs and the Impacts of Urbanization on the Reproductive Ecology and Physiology of the Side-Blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana), Emily E. Virgin
High-Isolation Antenna Technique for CubeSat-Borne, Continuous-Waveform Radar, Logan E. Voigt
An Exploration of System Level Dimensions of Nutrition in Relation to Health: Interprofessional Teams and Food Insecurity, McKenna Christy Voorhees
Efficient and Secure Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing Enabled Wireless Networks, Qun Wang
An Electroencephalographic Analysis of Strategy Usage During Social Dilemmas, Nick Wan
Greater Sage-Grouse Brood Responses to Livestock Grazing in Sagebrush Rangelands, Hailey Peatross Wayment
Minority Stress: A Model for Understanding Sexual Minority Adolescents’ Mental Health, Sean N. Weeks
Dust Deposition Changes Production, Chlorophyll-a and Community Composition in Mountain Lakes, Jiahao Wen
Evaluating Plant Uptake of 4,4'-Methylenedianiline, Jeff Wight
The Working Man's Rendezvous, Tameron Gentry Raines Williams
An Introduction to Combinatorics via Cayley's Theorem, Jaylee Willis
Pronghorn Space-Use Ecology in Utah, Veronica A. Winter
Parent Work-Family Balance and Adolescent Psychosocial Well-Being During the COVID-19 Shutdown, Shailey Woodward
Avian Species Distribution Models: Using Location Data to Inform Management Decisions, Marilyn E. Wright
Speech Entrainment in Neurotypical Adolescents, Camille Jane Wynn
Investigating Atmospheric Gravity Waves Using 3-Dimensional Spectral Analysis, Kenneth I. Zia
Numerical Modeling and Simulating Thermal Performance of Printed Circuit Boards, Paul R. Ziegenfelder
The Personal is Still Political: An Analysis of Jessica Valenti's Contemporary Feminine Style, Michala M. Zilkey
2021
Improvement Opportunities in the Two-Source Energy Balance Model for ET Using UAV Imagery and Point Cloud Information, Mahyar Aboutalebi
Sonic Boom Loudness Reduction Through Localized Supersonic Aircraft Equivalent-Area Changes, Troy A. Abraham
Ammonia Emission Assessment From Gasoline and Diesel Engines Under Utah Specific Conditions, Motasem Suleiman Abualqumboz
Intelligent Traffic Management: From Practical Stochastic Path Planning to Reinforcement Learning Based City-Wide Traffic Optimization, Kamilia Ahmadi
Achieving a Sequenced, Relational Query Language with Log-Segmented Timestamps, M. A. Manazir Ahsan